ECA (Speaking) II (A): ファションを比べる

Hello!

How are you? Today, let's talk about fashion, and what you think of some different styles. 

Activity 1
Look at these fashions from the past. Which ones do you like? First, here are some hippies from the 1960s:

Now, here are a group of German women wearing popular fashions in the 1970s:

Next, here is a picture of three girls. It's from my generation in the 1980s, and they are wearing styles that were popular then.

Here is a young person from the 1990s, wearing fashions popular then:

Finally, here is some popular fashion from the past decade - the 2000s:

What do you think of these clothing and hair styles from these different times? 

Activity 2
Now ask and talk about what you think of these styles with these words:

Cheap/cheaper (than)

Short/shorter (than)

Big/bigger (than)

Comfortable/more comfortable (than)

Expensive/more expensive (than)

Stylish/more stylish (than)

例えば：

A: I think clothes in the 1960s looked cheaper than clothes in the 1970s. What do you think?

B: Me? I think so too. They looked cheaper. I think clothes in the 1970s were more stylish. 

A: I think so too. They had interesting patterns. 

B: What do you think of styles from the 1980s? 

A: They looked cool, and the hair was bigger than the hair in the 1970s! 

B: (…)

See you next time!

Images: Top - "Close Up Necktie Of Businessman" (courtesy of hin255)/FreeDigital Photos.net/

Hippies - "Woodstock redmond hair" by Derek Redmond and Paul Campbell - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodstock_redmond_hair.JPG#/media/File:Woodstock_redmond_hair.JPG/Four women - "Bundesarchiv Bild 183-L0902-114, Leipzig, Messe, neue Mode" by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0902-114 / Ulrich Häßler / CC-BY-SA 3.0. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 de via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-L0902-114,_Leipzig,_Messe,_neue_Mode.jpg#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-L0902-114,_Leipzig,_Messe,_neue_Mode.jpg/Three girls - by jeanne [Public domain]/Young man - "Jonathan Brandis Wiki" by Airwolfberlin - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonathan_Brandis_Wiki.jpg#/media/File:Jonathan_Brandis_Wiki.jpg/Man on red carpet - "Jared Leto - 66ème Festival de Venise" by Nicolas Genin - originally posted to Flickr as 66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra). Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jared_Leto_-_66%C3%A8me_Festival_de_Venise.jpg#/media/File:Jared_Leto_-_66%C3%A8me_Festival_de_Venise.jpg/All rights reserved to the authors of the original images.